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Page 2: STS-3 Space Shuttle Columbia Photo Gallery « Zero-G News. Building It - The Space Shuttle Orbiter. Great post, but if any of you really want to delve deep, you should pick up a copy of Dennis R.

Building It - The Space Shuttle Orbiter

Jenkins' book on the history of the Shuttle's development. Ordered! This post was mostly an excuse to show the cool assembly pictures I found when I put my mind to looking for them. I would also recommend Stages to Saturn. It does a deep dive on the Saturn V. The book arrived today. One thing that bugged me when I was reading my edition was that whenever there was a picture of the External Tank from STS-1, he'd refer to it as the one from STS-2. SExpand. Space Shuttle / Human Spaceflight. First Shuttle Launch. Omichaeltmichael. INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE LAUNCH VEHICLE PLANS [1963-2001] Turn up your speakers and take a wild ride on a Shuttle solid rocket booster. On Google+, Michael Interbartolo — who worked for ten years on the Space Shuttle Program in Mission Control in Houston — just posted about this amazing video from cameras mounted on the Shuttle solid rockets as they rode into space.

Turn up your speakers and take a wild ride on a Shuttle solid rocket booster

We’ve seen videos from rocketcams before, but this is very clear, and has enhanced sound that’ll rock your speakers: Makes sure you have it set to HD and crank up the volume! There’s a lot to see here! Download page 1. Overall Shuttle Specifications. SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS. The two SRBs provide the main thrust to lift the space shuttle off the pad and up to an altitude of about 150,000 feet, or 24 nautical miles (28 statute miles).

SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS

In addition, the two SRBs carry the entire weight of the external tank and orbiter and transmit the weight load through their structure to the mobile launcher platform. Each booster has a thrust (sea level) of approximately 3,300,000 pounds at launch. They are ignited after the three space shuttle main engines' thrust level is verified. The two SRBs provide 71.4 percent of the thrust at lift- off and during first-stage ascent. Seventy- five seconds after SRB separation, SRB apogee occurs at an altitude of approximately 220,000 feet, or 35 nautical miles (41 statute miles). Space Shuttle Tiles. By Ryan Oakes Table of Contents: Background Thermal Protection System (TPS) Links Definitions.

Space Shuttle Tiles

Search Results: All Fields similar to 'Atlantis' and What equal to 'Image' - NASA Images. Charleyrousee_entreprenerd. Photoshop Tutorials. Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle was a crewed, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft operated by the U.S.

Space Shuttle

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Its official program name was Space Transportation System, taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development.[2] The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. They were used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Marshall Image eXchange. Space Shuttle program. The program formally commenced in 1972, although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, and was the sole focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s.

Space Shuttle program

The Shuttle was originally conceived of and presented to the public in 1972 as a 'Space Truck' which would, among other things, be used to build a United States space station in low Earth orbit during the 1980s and then be replaced by a new vehicle by the early 1990s. When the concept of the U.S. space station evolved into that of the International Space Station, which suffered from long delays and design changes before it could be completed, the service life of the Space Shuttle was extended several times until 2011 when it was finally retired — serving at least 15 years longer than it was originally designed to do.

In 2004, according to the President George W. Conception and development[edit] Early U.S. space shuttle concepts STS-1 at liftoff. Program history[edit] Budget[edit] Space Shuttle design process. See also Space Shuttle program - Conception and development North American Rockwell Shuttle, 1969 Even before the Apollo moon landing in 1969, in October 1968, NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs.

Space Shuttle design process

The early studies were denoted "Phase A", and in June 1970, "Phase B", which were more detailed and specific. Orbiter Vehicles. JSC Digital Image Collection. The Space Shuttle. Since 1981, NASA space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit.

The Space Shuttle

The five orbiters — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — have flown more than 130 times, carrying over 350 people into space and travelling more than half a billion miles, more than enough to reach Jupiter. Designed to return to Earth and land like a giant glider, the shuttle was the world's first reusable space vehicle. More than all of that, though, the shuttle program expanded the limits of human achievement and broadened our understanding of our world. It all started with STS-1, launched on April 12, 1981, just twenty years to the day after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. When astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launched that morning in Columbia, it was the first time in history a new spacecraft was launched on its maiden voyage with a crew aboard. Câmera da NASA acoplada em foguete grava belas cenas. Os SRBs (Solid Rocket Boosters) são responsáveis por 80% do empuxo do Onibus Espacial.Cada SRB pesa vazio 87 toneladas e carrega 502 toneladas de "pólvora", que são queimadas em apenas 124 segundos.Os SRBs são montados pela ATK com componentes fabricados por outras empresas.

Câmera da NASA acoplada em foguete grava belas cenas

ICD Data. Mission Information. HSF - STS-1. Space Shuttle Program Begins with Launch of STS-1 Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on April 12, 1981, at 6 a.m.

HSF - STS-1

CST (12:00 GMT) to begin the first shuttle mission, STS-1. The primary mission objectives for STS-1 were to accomplish a safe ascent into orbit, check out all the systems on the space shuttle and to return to Earth for a safe landing. All of these objectives were met successfully. The main payload carried on STS-1 was a Development Flight Instrumentation package, which contained sensors and measuring devices to record orbiter performance and the stresses that occurred during launch, ascent, orbital flight, descent and landing. Postflight inspection of Columbia revealed that an overpressure wave, which occurred when the solid rocket boosters ignited, resulted in the loss of 16 heat shield tiles and damage to 148 others. Space Shuttle.